Emery County Progress | 1908-11-21 | Page 2 | Stole Nearly a Million

STOLE NEARLY A MILLION chicago real estate man confesses to long L st of frauds cb cago peter van a leal estate deiler foi years classed among the first of chicago s prosper oua and reputable business men on bionday confessed to having oata ned through forged deeds and notes more than and a few hours after his arrest on his own urgent appeal to be punished was sentenced to the penitentiary the arrest the indict ment the confession and the sen tence were the work of less than four ho irs taken in the midst of busl ness from his office desk at wash inton street shortly after the noon hour van 1 a venerable looking man appeared before the court and in tears confessed that for irom eighteen to twenty years he had been securing money through the sale of forged documents and though he had bought back many of these spurl ous instruments without detection at least twenty five people would lose an aggregate of more than agh the paper wh ch be has not biet redeemed